Hunting scenes in Spanish Levantine rock art: An unequivocal chrono-cultural marker of Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Iberian societies?

摘要: Abstract In the framework of long-standing debate regarding chronology Spanish Levantine rock art, hypotheses proposing its cultural affiliation to Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic societies are largely based on socio-economic activities depicted in scenes, particular hunting. This position is closely related belief that there a radical opposition between hunter-gatherers agropastoralist – wild vs. domestic where hunting not envisaged have neither complementary economic purpose nor significant social symbolic role during settlement expansion “Neolithic package”. order assess validity scenes as chrono-cultural marker Epipalaeolithic-Mesolithic societies, this paper explores Neolithic Iberian Mediterranean Basin (6th-3rd millennium cal BC). To do this, data, from archaeozoological isotopic studies permitting evaluation animals consumption patterns, along with other social, identity-related elements, such funerary record, personal ornaments iconography itself, will be taking into account.